[Pkg-lxde-maintainers] Bug#587163: lxde-common: update-alternatives doesn't keep startlxde

[Vagrant Cascadian]

Package: lxde-common
Version: 0.5.0-4
Severity: important

upon upgrading lxde-common, it reset the x-session-manager alternative to
gnome-session, even though i had manually set startlxde as the alternative.

this makes it rather difficult to keep lxde as the default session manager. :(


~# update-alternatives --config x-session-manager
There are 5 choices for the alternative x-session-manager (providing /usr/bin/x-
session-manager).

Selection    Path                      Priority   Status
------------------------------------------------------------
0            /usr/bin/gnome-session     50        auto mode
1            /usr/bin/gnome-session     50        manual mode
2            /usr/bin/icewm-session     10        manual mode
3            /usr/bin/lxsession         49        manual mode
4            /usr/bin/openbox-session   40        manual mode
* 5            /usr/bin/startlxde         50        manual mode

Press enter to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number:

~# dpkg-reconfigure lxde-common
update-alternatives: removing manually selected alternative - switching x-sessio
n-manager to auto mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/gnome-session to provide /usr/bin/x-session-
manager (x-session-manager) in auto mode.
~#


i was thinking this was a bug in update-alternatives, but when setting
x-session-manager to something other than startlxde or lxsession, nothing
changes; it works as expected.

looking at the postinst for all the various things providing x-session-manager,
i'm at a loss as to figure out what's different with lxde-common/lxsession.

hrm.

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